Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Limeade

We made some today. Cranberry limeade too. It was easy. It's yummy! 1 qt is already gone. Limes are on sale again. Hmmm. Here's what we did if you're interested:

juiced all the limes we had in the juicer-cut into quarters first, but tossed in peel and all

made a simple syrup of 1/2 cup evaporated cane juice to 1 cup water-I think I ended up doing this 3 times

tossed 1 cup of cranberries into the first batch of syrup-they were frozen and that was a quick way to thaw, as well as cool the syrup

ran the cranberry & syrup mixture in blender to chop them up

We ended up with about 3 cups of lime juice. From that I made 2 qts of limeade by adding about a cup of juice, a cup of syrup and 2 cups of water to quart jars.

In another quart jar I put about 1 1/2 cups of the cranberry mixture and 1 cup of syrup with the rest filled with water.

I still have a full quart of cranberry limeade concentrate to use for more or to flavor club soda. I love bubbly drinks and have grown used to straight club soda, but I sure enjoy it more with flavor! Tonight we polished off a qt of the limeade mixing it with club soda.

This would have made a great festive punch for a Christmas party-a bowl of sparkling limeade (or even a pretty glass pitcher) with chopped cranberries floating in it.